Week 1 (Mar 18-22)
- Research Papers
Week 10 (Mar 4-8)
- Night
Week 9 (Feb 25-Mar 1)
- College Essays
Week 8 (Feb 19-22)
- Night Glossary
- Class Notes: Intro to Night
- Class Notes: Memory, Rememory, and Trauma
Week 7 (Feb 19-22)
- College Essays: The Right Filter
- College Essays: Prompts, Guidelines, Tips
- “Tips for Writing an Effective Application Essay”
Week 6 (Feb 11-14)
- The Dust Bowl
Week 5 (Feb 4-8)
- AP Prep
Week 4 (Jan 28-Feb 1)
- The Great Gatsby
Week 3 (Jan 22-25)
- One-Minute Reports
- The Great Gatsby Class Notes
- Character Charts
- Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby
- Description (4 bullet points), Significant Quote (written out with page number), and Commentary (3-5 complete sentences of your impression of the character overall)
Week 2 (Jan 14-18)
Week 1 (Jan 7-11)
- Test Review (Format: Timed Writing)
- “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
- “The Last Laugh” by Wilfred Owen
- “The Solider” by Rupert Brooks
Week 6 (Dec 3-7)
- List of GAP Texts for Quiz
- “The Gift of the Magi” HW Questions
- “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry
- “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
- Class Notes: The Gilded Age (The 3 types of irony are on the last slide)
- “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman
- “Hope is the Thing With Feathers” by Emily Dickinson
- Class Notes: Transcendentalism
Week 5 (Nov 26-30)
- Walden excerpt by Henry David Thoreau
- Walden Packet
- “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass
- Douglass Packet
- Edgar Allan Poe Slides
- “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe
Week 4 (Nov 12-16)
Week 3 (Nov 5-9)
- A Tale of Two Cities
Week 2 (Oct 29-Nov 2)
- Chapter V: “The Wine-Shop”
- Class Notes: A Tale of Two Cities
- Student Version
- Full Version
Week 1 (Oct 22-26)
Week 9 (Oct 8-12)
- Frankenblog Post #4:
- Title: Do You Even Clone, Bro?
- Minimum Word Count: 200
- Prompt: (After reading article) What are the ethical implications of the current issues of cloning and genetic engineering?
- Cloning Article
- Frankenblog Post #3
Week 8 (Oct 1-5)
- Frankenblogs (Guidelines & Blog Post #1)
- Group Rhetorical Analysis Essay
- Frankenstein Class Notes
Week 7 (Sep 24-28)
- Political Cartoons
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Week 6 (Sep 17-21)
- Argument Videos
- Rhetorical Devices
- “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Michelle Obama & Ann Romney Speeches
- AP Packet: Obama & Romney Speeches
Week 5 (Sep 10-14)
Week 4 (Sep 4-7)
Week 3 (Aug 27-31)
- Class Notes: The Scarlet Letter
Week 2 (Aug 20-24)
Week 1 (Aug 13-17)
- Ray Bradbury’s Letter to Brian Sibley
- Class Notes: F451 Real-World Issues
- Animated version of “The Allegory of the Cave”
- 2 VIDEOS: “What is McCarthyism?” and Edward R. Murrow Broadcast
- “The Allegory of the Cave” by Plato
- Universal Quote Poster
Week .5 (Aug 9)